摘要 |
<p>A scheduling algorithm is disclosed that allows mobile units (300), participating in an ongoing communications session, to temporary perform channel-demanding communications operations without ending the session and that is useful in the case of no free radio channels. The algorithm is based on selecting a radio channel (65) for transmitting a radio block (35) based on information of a previous radio channel (60), no which a previous radio block (35) has been transmitted. The radio block (35) and the previous radio block (30) are based on common information. A mobile unit (300) participating in the communications session selects whether to perform any channel-demanding communications operations on the selected radio channel (65). By limiting any such other channel-demanding operations to only the selected radio channel (65), the probability of loss of useful data for the mobile unit (300) during the communications session is minimized.</p> |